Lack of Individuality in The Brave New World by Zak Mitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe en-us 2020-01-30 03:57:25 UTC 2020-01-30 16:51:33 UTC hello@padlet.com "What Other People Say May Change What You See" zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/437977285 Why people conform?]]> 2020-01-30 03:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/437977285 "It suggests that information from other people may color our perception at a very deep level" (Blakeslee 2). zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/437977430 2020-01-30 03:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/437977430 "Dr. Berns said, they went along with the group one wrong answers 41% of the time" (Blakeslee 3). zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/437978466 2020-01-30 04:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/437978466 "In fact, the researchers found that when people went along with the group on wrong answers, activity increased in the right intraparietal sulcus, an area devoted to spatial awareness" (Blakeslee 3). zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/437978666 2020-01-30 04:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/437978666 "But the people who made independent judgments that went against the group showed activation in the right amygdala and right caudata nucleus-- regions associated with emotional salience" (Blakeslee 3). zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/437979174 2020-01-30 04:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/437979174 Conformity and the lack of individuality in the Brave New World zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438243778 2020-01-30 16:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438243778 People are conditioned to follow and be a part of society, rather than an individual in the society zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438244735 2020-01-30 16:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438244735 "Savage Ideas" show what the society is protecting against zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438245850 2020-01-30 16:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438245850 "The Savage shrugged his shoulders. 'Anywhere. I don't care. So long as I can be alone" (Huxley 243). zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438246474 2020-01-30 16:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438246474 People are expendable. No one person matters. Stability in the society is important, neglecting individual lives. Conditioned to value death as the person's last contribution to society. zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438247995 2020-01-30 16:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438247995 "as though death were something terrible, as though any one mattered as much as all that" (Huxley 206). zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438249548 2020-01-30 16:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438249548 "We don't encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements" (Huxley 163). zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438251098 2020-01-30 16:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438251098 "Suddenly, from out of the Synthetic Music Box a Voice began to speak. The Voice of Reason, the Voice of Good Feeling. The sound-track was unwinding itself in Synthetic Anti-Riot Speech Number Two" (Huxley 214). zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438253248 2020-01-30 16:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438253248 By making everyone stay together but not make meaningful relationships aids in hindering self thought and choices. zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438253608 2020-01-30 16:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438253608 Is it possible people in the Brave New World know the system is wrong but they go along with it because of the group? zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438255152 2020-01-30 16:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438255152 People are conditioned in today's world, but in a different way. zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438262507 2020-01-30 16:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438262507 “we do not object to molding a human being, provided it is done badly; we only object when it is done well” (Nicol 50). zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438263547 2020-01-30 16:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438263547 Humans by nature are conditioned as they grow up through their experiences. zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438264017 2020-01-30 16:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438264017 Counter Argument: this is not applicable, this could never happen zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438264981 2020-01-30 16:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438264981 In her criticism Nicol references experimental psychologist John B. Watson and his famous claim that “given twelve infants, he could take one and make of him any kind of person he chose” (Nicol 46-47) zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438265423 2020-01-30 16:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438265423 Not even the life of someone is important, only their contribution to a stable society. zmitra https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438273410 2020-01-30 16:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/zmitra/rvnvdjqm29oe/wish/438273410